Word: edit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor General Gideon Brand van Zyl, who asked the Nationalist leader-myopic, paunchy Dr. Daniel François Malan - to take over. Dr. Malan (pronounced mah-lahn) is a onetime predikant (minister) of the Dutch Reformed Church, was once a Sundayschool pupil of Smuts. Malan left his pulpit to edit a Nationalist paper, has been in politics ever since...
...November 1901. His father was looked on as something of an eccentric by the neighbors. He built an eight-sided house for his family, on the theory that it would be proof against wind storms, scribbled a new system of logic which Gallup still hopes to edit some day. He was an ardent Bryan man. As a joke, people started calling George "Ted," after Teddy Roosevelt, a nickname that has stuck ever since...
WHRV will record the evening's events on wire, edit it, and play the finished program the following evening for the benefit of those unable to attend the actual affair. Additional coverage has been promised by the Boston papers and several national magazines...
...cycles to a lecture hall, her steel-grey hair and black academic gown billowing in the breeze. She has been to the U.S. only once, to teach at Pennsylvania's Bryn Mawr, and that was 39 years ago. Most of her days are spent in tutoring, writing, helping edit the Cambridge Historical Journal, keeping the university archives, and campaigning energetically for the Labor Party. Social life? Says Spinster Cam: "I don't have any. Too busy...
Maxim for Max. In June 1945 Corre began to edit Samedi Soir. Paris took to it like a dance craze; its circulation was soon 370,000. He quit a year later after a squabble and called on his old boss, Pierre Lazareff. Corre wanted to take over the dull Sunday edition of Lazareff's profitable France-Soir (TIME, June 23). "Take it," said Lazareff, "it's yours." With five hours to make his first deadline, Corre slapped together an edition that tripled France Dimanche's circulation, then 30,000. When Samedi Soir's editors...